One more thing regarding the compression -> you can both deeplake.link() to your raw data lake without touching it, or use deeplake.read() which preservers the compression as long as it matches with tensor default compression.
https://docs.deeplake.ai/en/latest/deeplake.html?highlight=l...
https://docs.deeplake.ai/en/latest/deeplake.html#deeplake.re...